We discuss Peanut, Bill's long
lived gibbon.
Not exact matches
Although they
lived in a land richly endowed with carnivores, our ancestors could not run like the gazelle, burrow like the rabbit, climb trees like the
gibbon, fly away like the flamingo, or fight back like the elephant.
The animal
lived 11.6 million years ago and would have had a body mass of about 5 kilograms, roughly the same as a modern
gibbon (Science, doi.org/8vp).
On the contrary, the findings of this new study suggest that the ancestor of all apes
lived in an environment that favored a
gibbon - like size, an ape of about five kilograms.
In the course of evolution, genes that favored the adaptation of the
gibbons to their way of
life, continued to develop.
[T] he trader allegedly sold various protected
living wildlife including orangutans, golden cats, hedgehogs, greater slow loris, siamang, Javan
gibbons, hornbills and juvenile crocodiles.
Biofuels will continue to pollute the atmosphere more than petrol or diesel, all under the veil of an emissions - reducing policy, and will increasingly threaten the homes of animals like the orangutans and
gibbons that
live here in Borneo.
Biologist Gabriella Skollar is a remarkable human being who has dedicated her
life to the conservation of endangered, small, arboreal apes known as
gibbons.